Back in the ’30s, an inventor named Bill Gallagher devised a way to keep his horse from using a car as a scratching post by installing an electrical circuit that delivered a shock whenever the horse touched the vehicle. The invention sparked an idea to create an electrical fencing system.

The American Correctional Association’s (ACA) annual winter conference is set to take place Jan. 25-30 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.
The conference will be complete with a full exhibit hall, panel hearings, meetings, workshops and correctional facility tours.